Lithothamnion corallioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophycophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Hapalidiaceae
Subfamily Melobesioideae
Genus Lithothamnion
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Mediterranean. Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © University of Trieste. From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Mediterranean. Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © University of Trieste. From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Mediterranean. Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © University of Trieste. From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Mediterranean. Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © University of Trieste. From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Mediterranean. Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © University of Trieste. From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Spain, Galicia, Ría de Pontevedra, subtidal, 2005. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Galicia, Ría de Vigo, subtidal, 2005. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Galway Bay, Ireland; subtidal. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Trá an Dóilín, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe; low water plants. 05 May 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Trá an Dóilín, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe; low water. 08 Mar 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
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Publication details
Lithothamnion corallioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1867: 151, pl. 20, figs 8-10
Original publication: Crouan, P.L. & Crouan, H.M. (1867). Florule du Finistère contenant les descriptions de 360 espèces nouvelles de sporogames, de nombreuses observations et une synonymic des plantes cellulaires et vasculaires qui croissent spontanément dans ce département, accompagnées de trente-deux planches où est représentée l'organographie, faite sur l'état vif, des fruits et des tissus de 198 genres d'algues avec la plante grandeur naturelle ou réduite plus une planche supplémentaire où sont figures 24 champignons nouveaux. pp. [i]-x, [1]-262, frontisp., pi. 1-31, + 1 suppl. pl., coloured liths. by H. Crouan. Paris & Brest: Friedrich Klincksieck & J.B. et A. Lefournier.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Lithothamnion is Lithothamnion muelleri Lenormand ex Rosanoff.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Spongites corallioides P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan
Type information
Type locality: Rade de Brest, Finistere, France (Woelkerling 1998: 391). Neotype: collector not indicated; date not indicated; BM Algues marines du Finisère, No. 242 (Irvine & Chamberlain 1994: 180). Notes: Isoneotypes: PC, Algues marines du Finistere no. 242, Thuret-Bornet Herbarium (algal fascicle 131, filed under Lithothamnion), includes printed label; PC, Algues marines du Finistere no. 242, Cryptogamic Library in the seperately preserved exsiccata, includes printed label; PC, no. 242, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym) (Woelkerling, 1993: 390).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Mesophyllum corallioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) M.Lemoine
Spongites corallioides P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1852
Lithothamnion calcareum f. corallioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie 1905
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lithothamnion corallioides f. saxatile Foslie 1895
Lithothamnion corallioides f. minuta Foslie 1899
Lithothamnion fruticulosum f. soluta Foslie 1905
Lithothamnion solutum f. effusa Foslie 1906
Lithothamnion solutum Foslie 1908
Lithophyllum solutum (Foslie) M.Lemoine 1915
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Mesophyllum corallioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) M.Lemoine)
Europe: Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977).
(as Lithothamnion corallioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan)
Ireland: Antrim (Johnson & Hensman 1896, Anonymous 1898, Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Galway (Foslie 1899, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Balearic Islands (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997), Britain (Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Babbini & Bressan 1997), France (Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Ireland (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Morton 1994, Blake & Maggs 2003), Isla de Alborán (Conde & Flores Moya 2000), Italy (Basso 1995, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Serio et al 2006), Norway (Rueness 1997), Sardinia (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Adey & McKibbin 1970, Ballesteros 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Ballesteros 1989, Peña & Bárbara 2004, Bárbara et al. 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Pena & Bárbara 2008).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Afonso-Carrillo & Gil-Rodríguez 1982, Ballesteros, Sansón, Reyes, Afonso-Carrillo & Gil-Rodríguez 1992, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Hernández-González et al. 2004a, Hernández-González et al. 2004b, Barquín-Diez et al. 2005, Sangil, Sansón & Afonso-Carillo 2005), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).
Africa: Libya (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Babbini & Bressan 1997).
Asia: Korea (Lee 2008).
(as Lithothamnion solutum Foslie)
Europe: France (Feldmann & Magne 1964), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Italy (Giaccone 1969).
Atlantic Islands: Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005).
(as Lithophyllum solutum (Foslie) M.Lemoine)
Europe: Adriatic (Ercegović 1980).
Key references
Basso, D. (1995). Living calcareous algae by a paleontological approach: the genus Lithothamnion Heydrich nom. cons. from the soft bottoms of the Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101: 349-366.
Blake, C. & Maggs, C.A. (2003). Comparative growth rates and internal banding periodicity of maerl species (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from northern Europe. Phycologia 42: 606-612.
Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.
Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
No sequences have been found on the NCBI site.
Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 29 June 2010 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 3849 times since it was created.
References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Hall-Spencer, J.M. (1995). Lithothamnion corallioides (P. & H. Crouan) P. & H. Crouan may not extend into Scottish waters. Coralline News 20: 1-3.
Hamberg, M., Gerwick, W.H. & Åsen, P.A. (1992). Linoleic acid metabolism in the red alga Lithothamnion corallioides - biosynthesis of 11(R)-Hydroxy-9(Z), 12(Z)-octadecadienoic acid. Lipids 27(7): 487-493.
Mendoza, M.L. & Cabioch, J. (1998). Étude comparée de la reproduction de Phymatolithon calcareum (Pallas) Adey & McKibbin et Lithothamnion corallioides (P. & H. Crouan) P. & H. Crouan (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), et reconsidérations sur la définition des genres. Canadian Journal of Botany 76: 1433-1445.
Peña, V. & Bárbara, I. (2004). Diferenciación morfológica y anatómica entre Lithothamnion corallioides y Phymatolithon calcareum (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) en dos bancos de maërl de la Ría de Arousa (N.O. Península Ibérica). Anales de Biología 26: 21-27.
Potin, P., Floc'h, J. Y., Augris, C. & Cabioch, J. (1990). Annual growth rate of the calcareous red alga Lithothamnion corallioides (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Bay of Brest, France. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 13: 263-267.
